Sorry to Arianrhod and AliasJaneDoe for the loss of their reviews but I had
to restart the story due to the computer error the first time round.
Disclaimer: I only own Xtreme. I own neither Mutant X, the GSA, nor any of the official affiliated characters.
Shalimar Fox stood atop a small hill, staring at Sanctuary. She saw Adam walking up the hill towards her. He stopped next to her, facing the other way. He put his hand on her shoulder briefly, turned around and sat on the grass. Shalimar crouched down next to him.
"It's hard for you, isn't it?" Adam asked. "To live in the house, surrounded by people?" Shalimar looked at Adam.
"It's alright I suppose." She looked away, quickly, back towards Sanctuary. "It's just." she began.
"You feel uncomfortable. Sometimes you feel that you can't control the feral being trapped within you."
"No!" she snaps. "Sorry. It's not that. I feel that the animal within me wants to be left alone. I want to be left alone. Besides, when the sun is out, it's nice to be outside." It wasn't until this moment that she noticed the shadows change on the grass. She looks up to see a dark cloud beginning to cover the sun.
"Just my luck," she mutters. She stands up and brushes her knees. The first spot of rain begins to patter on her back. "Oh well. Back to the pen." She begins to walk off. She feels Adam grab. Her arm. She turns to face him. There is a hint of sadness in his eyes.
"Is that what you believe Sanctuary to be?" He was very sincere and sadness cracked through in his voice. Shalimar gave him a cracked smile.
"No. just making jokes. Bad ones." She turned and walked again. Adam followed her. Shalimar couldn't help remembering the conversation they had just had, and the fact she had sadness in her voice too.
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Jesse and Emma were playing a game in the lounging room when Brennan walked in.
"No. Not there!" Jesse tried to move one of his playing pieces but Emma slapped his hand away.
"Oi! You're already winning. I just want to win for once."
"I blame the weather!" Jesse exclaimed. He looked out the window at the now raging storm. "It's bad luck. putting me off my game." He muttered.
"Yeah. riiight." Emma looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"He's right," Brennan explained whilst eating an apple.
"Something isn't right. I'm tapped into the energies of lightning and this doesn't seem natural. There's some sort of shift."
"What?" Emma looked at him. "What do you mean?"
He grinned at her. "I have no idea. I'm probably just being paranoid, or being around so much electricity is making me really excited." As answer to an un-asked question, lightning flashed. He took another bite of his apple. "What are you playing anyway?"
"Some game Jesse told me about," Emma said. "Although," she whispers, "Between you and me, I think he's making it up as he goes along."
"Heard that," Jesse said, still looking at the storm out the window. "Just because you're losing."
"Could everyone join me in the briefing room please?" Adam called from across the hall.
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"An anomaly has been found. There seems to by a weather report, and the weather seems normal but on closer inspection, the cloud cover matches the perimeter of the city exactly."
"What?" Jesse exclaimed. "You mean that someone is controlling the weather?"
"Or something." Brennan added.
"Take a look at this." Adam changed the screen on the computer wall to show an aerial image of a storm.
"It does surround the entire city!" Shalimar exclaimed.
"Then, ten minutes ago, this was put out on all news networks." Adam changed the screen again, this time to show a live news report. It showed a news reporter in the city as a storm raged above.
". on the scene where there have been reports of superhuman individuals, one of which is controlling the very weather that we see above us now. Here we see them on footage caught earlier this morning."
On the screen, the picture zoomed to show a group of young people, standing outside the hall. One had their arms in a gesture towards the sky, another shot their arms into the sky and lightning cracked. A third stood with their arms folded. Rain poured down, seeming to stop before it hit him. The others were under the shelter of the coliseum-like arches to the hall. All except one, who crouched in the rain, staring at the camera. Suddenly, he struck. He launched himself towards the camera and blinding speed. He took the presenter down on his way through. He dropped the camera, which crashed to the floor, the lens cracking and showing a split, sideways image of the presenter on the floor as the figure landed next to the presenter's body. He then froze the camera in a blanket of ice, disabling the camera's circuitry, cutting off the picture.
"There you have them." the presenter at the scene now continued. "Rest assured, that the cameraman and presenter seen in the clip were unharmed, just minor bruises and cuts. Even though the group viciously attacked them unprovoked. Calling themselves 'Xtreme', each of these 'New Mutants' has an elemental power, combining them to create this typhoon, the worst we've seen in the last century."
"I've seen enough." Shalimar turned to walk out of the door.
"Wait," Adam called solemnly. Shalimar turned around. Adam continued. "An Elemental is a very powerful mutant. Remained unchecked, they can spiral out of control. You saw what one did to that camera. Look at the weather outside for more proof. They are even younger than you. They're children, children who need help, our help. They obviously are in trouble. And it's getting bigger by the minute." Adam looked out the window at the growing storm.
"Whoa!" Jesse exclaimed, reading things on the computer monitor with a headset on.
"What is it?" Brennan asked. Jesse ignored him.
"Jesse!" Brennan shouted.
"JESSE!" Everyone shouted. Jesse stirred and moved the headphones from his head. He span around in the chair.
"Someone call my name?" Brennan clenched his fist in a mocking 'One of these days.' tone, Shalimar covered her head in her hands and Emma laughed. Adam was the only one who remained still.
"What did you exclaim at?"
"Huh?" Jesse asked. This time Brennan did hit him, on the arm. "Ah! Jesu."
"He was asking," Brennan interrupted, "Why did you go whoa?"
"Ohh." He turned back to Adam. "The GSA are on their way now. I picked it up on a radio interception. They say that the Elementals broke out of GSA headquarters and crashed the place, stealing some sort of disk."
"Everyone to the cars."
"We're not going in the double helix?" Emma asked Adam.
"No." Adam smiled slightly, then looked Emma in the eye and smiled openly. "Weather's too bad."
Disclaimer: I only own Xtreme. I own neither Mutant X, the GSA, nor any of the official affiliated characters.
Shalimar Fox stood atop a small hill, staring at Sanctuary. She saw Adam walking up the hill towards her. He stopped next to her, facing the other way. He put his hand on her shoulder briefly, turned around and sat on the grass. Shalimar crouched down next to him.
"It's hard for you, isn't it?" Adam asked. "To live in the house, surrounded by people?" Shalimar looked at Adam.
"It's alright I suppose." She looked away, quickly, back towards Sanctuary. "It's just." she began.
"You feel uncomfortable. Sometimes you feel that you can't control the feral being trapped within you."
"No!" she snaps. "Sorry. It's not that. I feel that the animal within me wants to be left alone. I want to be left alone. Besides, when the sun is out, it's nice to be outside." It wasn't until this moment that she noticed the shadows change on the grass. She looks up to see a dark cloud beginning to cover the sun.
"Just my luck," she mutters. She stands up and brushes her knees. The first spot of rain begins to patter on her back. "Oh well. Back to the pen." She begins to walk off. She feels Adam grab. Her arm. She turns to face him. There is a hint of sadness in his eyes.
"Is that what you believe Sanctuary to be?" He was very sincere and sadness cracked through in his voice. Shalimar gave him a cracked smile.
"No. just making jokes. Bad ones." She turned and walked again. Adam followed her. Shalimar couldn't help remembering the conversation they had just had, and the fact she had sadness in her voice too.
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Jesse and Emma were playing a game in the lounging room when Brennan walked in.
"No. Not there!" Jesse tried to move one of his playing pieces but Emma slapped his hand away.
"Oi! You're already winning. I just want to win for once."
"I blame the weather!" Jesse exclaimed. He looked out the window at the now raging storm. "It's bad luck. putting me off my game." He muttered.
"Yeah. riiight." Emma looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"He's right," Brennan explained whilst eating an apple.
"Something isn't right. I'm tapped into the energies of lightning and this doesn't seem natural. There's some sort of shift."
"What?" Emma looked at him. "What do you mean?"
He grinned at her. "I have no idea. I'm probably just being paranoid, or being around so much electricity is making me really excited." As answer to an un-asked question, lightning flashed. He took another bite of his apple. "What are you playing anyway?"
"Some game Jesse told me about," Emma said. "Although," she whispers, "Between you and me, I think he's making it up as he goes along."
"Heard that," Jesse said, still looking at the storm out the window. "Just because you're losing."
"Could everyone join me in the briefing room please?" Adam called from across the hall.
______________________________
"An anomaly has been found. There seems to by a weather report, and the weather seems normal but on closer inspection, the cloud cover matches the perimeter of the city exactly."
"What?" Jesse exclaimed. "You mean that someone is controlling the weather?"
"Or something." Brennan added.
"Take a look at this." Adam changed the screen on the computer wall to show an aerial image of a storm.
"It does surround the entire city!" Shalimar exclaimed.
"Then, ten minutes ago, this was put out on all news networks." Adam changed the screen again, this time to show a live news report. It showed a news reporter in the city as a storm raged above.
". on the scene where there have been reports of superhuman individuals, one of which is controlling the very weather that we see above us now. Here we see them on footage caught earlier this morning."
On the screen, the picture zoomed to show a group of young people, standing outside the hall. One had their arms in a gesture towards the sky, another shot their arms into the sky and lightning cracked. A third stood with their arms folded. Rain poured down, seeming to stop before it hit him. The others were under the shelter of the coliseum-like arches to the hall. All except one, who crouched in the rain, staring at the camera. Suddenly, he struck. He launched himself towards the camera and blinding speed. He took the presenter down on his way through. He dropped the camera, which crashed to the floor, the lens cracking and showing a split, sideways image of the presenter on the floor as the figure landed next to the presenter's body. He then froze the camera in a blanket of ice, disabling the camera's circuitry, cutting off the picture.
"There you have them." the presenter at the scene now continued. "Rest assured, that the cameraman and presenter seen in the clip were unharmed, just minor bruises and cuts. Even though the group viciously attacked them unprovoked. Calling themselves 'Xtreme', each of these 'New Mutants' has an elemental power, combining them to create this typhoon, the worst we've seen in the last century."
"I've seen enough." Shalimar turned to walk out of the door.
"Wait," Adam called solemnly. Shalimar turned around. Adam continued. "An Elemental is a very powerful mutant. Remained unchecked, they can spiral out of control. You saw what one did to that camera. Look at the weather outside for more proof. They are even younger than you. They're children, children who need help, our help. They obviously are in trouble. And it's getting bigger by the minute." Adam looked out the window at the growing storm.
"Whoa!" Jesse exclaimed, reading things on the computer monitor with a headset on.
"What is it?" Brennan asked. Jesse ignored him.
"Jesse!" Brennan shouted.
"JESSE!" Everyone shouted. Jesse stirred and moved the headphones from his head. He span around in the chair.
"Someone call my name?" Brennan clenched his fist in a mocking 'One of these days.' tone, Shalimar covered her head in her hands and Emma laughed. Adam was the only one who remained still.
"What did you exclaim at?"
"Huh?" Jesse asked. This time Brennan did hit him, on the arm. "Ah! Jesu."
"He was asking," Brennan interrupted, "Why did you go whoa?"
"Ohh." He turned back to Adam. "The GSA are on their way now. I picked it up on a radio interception. They say that the Elementals broke out of GSA headquarters and crashed the place, stealing some sort of disk."
"Everyone to the cars."
"We're not going in the double helix?" Emma asked Adam.
"No." Adam smiled slightly, then looked Emma in the eye and smiled openly. "Weather's too bad."